ITB: Responsible Tourism Networking Event: Bigger, Better in Berlin
Monday, 03 Mar, 2010
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Last Year’s Networking Event Finale
Continuing the tradition of responsible tourism networking at ITB Berlin 2010. An opportunity to meet practitioners, inspire and be inspired. A unique place to share your initiatives and success stories…join us.
The event is organised in partnership with The Blue Yonder, Green Circuit and Buffalo Tours. As in earlier gatherings, Trip bod (formerly Your Safe Planet) and Respontour.net will be supporting this event.
On the Friday night of the 2009 ITB conference in Berlin 120 people gathered to ‘engage, share and inspire’. These fringe events began in London two and a half years ago to answer the need for a forum in which grass root tour operators and travel organisations could meet and work together. The result has been responsible business being done and the proliferation of ground-breaking ethical tourism programmes.
The large groups of Fringe members at ITB are resonant of the energy that exists at the grass roots of the tourism industry.
What’s more these events take place with the full encouragement and backing of the ITB conference organisers who are increasingly keen to raise the profile of local service providers.
Rika Jean-Francois, CSR Manager at ITB, supports the event and stresses the importance of such gatherings and of projects that raise awareness of grass root operators.
Network members are able to make ‘Pitches’ to the assembled throng, and a broad range of themes are covered. These usually include local philanthropic travel, pan-national youth and development work and the commitment of large luxury resorts embracing energy saving technology with the occasional ‘Wild Card’
And watch out for new ideas – the forum is often used by some to launch new initiatives, last year’s including a presentation from Social Tours founder Raj Gayawali on the ‘Green Circuit’ initiative. This is a concept of a grand "green" circuit in the Indian sub-continent, linking responsible operators in a "green" (travel by land) tour itinerary bringing together common interests of visibility and joint learning
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Register your interest with gopi@theblueyonder
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For the leading edge of grass root responsible tourism watch this space”… Sally Broom
“Great platform to come together and meet likeminded people.” Linda Veraasdal, Ethical Travel Portal
“So many other likeminded people from all sectors of the industry encouraged us to make respontour.net the interface for RT-communication in our region of the world.” Marcus Bauer
“It gave us the opportunity to share our business idea with a diverse group of people from all over the world, each with different perspectives and roles Ashish Gupta Travel to Care.com
“The networking event was an important step to link the Bosnian open youth travel network to similar and complementary projects and products around the world”
Thierry Joubert Green Visions
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